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One of the consequences, for an album like Drag , is that the most innocuous songs now, paradoxically, pack more of a punch than ostensibly more searing stuff like "My Old Addiction."
As his fiancee, Vera Farmiga is seen only briefly but makes a searing impression: She's fierce and legalistic, and she fixates on the bottom-line questions in a way that frees her from looking at the moral ones.
While this form of searing has lost the force it once had, the essence of all the new words of emphasis is physical.
A piece cringes at the new trend of body modification--or "bod-mod"--in which people mutilate themselves by searing their skin and splitting their tongues.
They've sworn emotionally how much the race issue means to them-how searing it was to witness bigotry against fellow Knicks (that's Bradley, of course) or, in Gore's case, to watch his father battling Jim Crow.